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Building a Web Application with PHP and MariaDB: A Reference Guide

Building a Web Application with PHP and MariaDB: A Reference Guide

By : Sai S Sriparasa
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Building a Web Application with PHP and MariaDB: A Reference Guide

Building a Web Application with PHP and MariaDB: A Reference Guide

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By: Sai S Sriparasa
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Overview of this book

This is a step-by-step, tutorial guide designed to help readers transition from beginners to more experienced developers using clear explanations. The variety of examples will help readers build, secure, and host real-time web applications. If you are a developer who wants to use PHP and MariaDB to build web applications, this book is ideal for you. Beginners can use this book to start with the basics and learn how to build and host web applications. Seasoned PHP Developers can use this book to get familiar with the new features of PHP 5.4 and 5.5, unit testing, caching, security, and performance optimization.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. CRUD Operations, Sorting, Filtering, and Joins
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1. CRUD Operations, Sorting, Filtering, and Joins
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String datatypes
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Number datatypes
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Date datatypes
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The students table
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Inserting data
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Retrieving data
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Sorting data
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Filtering data
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Updating data
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Deleting data
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Joins
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Summary
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2. Advanced Programming with MariaDB
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2. Advanced Programming with MariaDB
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Enhancing the existing tables
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Working with stored procedures
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Working with stored routines
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Working with triggers
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Summary
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3. Advanced Programming with PHP
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3. Advanced Programming with PHP
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New features in PHP 5.4 and 5.5
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Unit testing
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Working with MariaDB
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Summary
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4. Setting Up Student Portal
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4. Setting Up Student Portal
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Setting up the nuts and bolts of our application
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Setting up MVC
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Adding a student
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Listing all students
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Adding a course
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Listing all courses
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Registering a student to a course
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Viewing all registrations
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Summary
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5. Working with Files and Directories
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5. Working with Files and Directories
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Data imports
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Data exports
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Logging
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Summary
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6. Authentication and Access Control
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6. Authentication and Access Control
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Authentication
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Access controls
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User roles
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Summary
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7. Caching
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7. Caching
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Introduction to caching
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Caching in the database
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Caching in the application
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Advanced caching techniques
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Summary
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8. REST API
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8. REST API
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What is REST?
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Generating XML feeds
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Generating JSON feeds
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9. Security
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9. Security
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Securing the Apache web server
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Securing MariaDB
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Securing PHP
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10. Performance Optimization
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10. Performance Optimization
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Performance optimization for the Apache web server
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Performance optimization for MariaDB
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Performance optimization for PHP
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CDN, reverse proxy, and database replication
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Index
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Index

Generating XML feeds

In the last section, we built our API to fetch the data and print the raw data onto the page. In this section, we will build methods that will take the data and convert them into XML feeds. A remote application can then use these XML feeds to ingest the data. Before we build the XML generation functionality, let's create a class variable that can be used to hold this XML data using the following code in the controllers/api.php file:

public $xml;

Now that we have added the class variable, let's add the following XML generation functionality to our API, present in the controllers/api.php file:

private function _generateXML($root, $data){
  $this->xml = new SimpleXMLElement("<$root/>");

  foreach($data as $key=>$value){
    $this->_generateXMLChild(substr($root, 0, -1), $value);
  }
  header("HTTP/1.1 200 OK");
  header("Content-Type: application/xml; charset=utf-8");
  echo $this->xml->asXML();
}

private function _generateXMLChild($type ,$item){

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